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Nebo, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62355. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Hill East quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Nebo within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Nebo fell from 340 to 282 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010340
2020282-58 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

2,746 words on this township

With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Spring Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Spring Creek Township - 2,746 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Nebo between 2008 and 2014, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 March 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSPRING CR.
14 March 2014Debris and open burning96 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources140046
14 March 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources140045
29 January 2014Debris and open burning140 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources140012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nebo: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Titanium, Aluminum, Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Howell Hollow Fire ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Howell Hollow Fire ClayTitanium, Aluminum, Iron, SilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nebo in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Thunderstorm WindNebo$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a power line in Nebo.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNebo-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees, tree limbs, power poles and power lines around town.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindNebo-Downburst winds caused considerable damage to numerous trees and tree limbs from half a mile to 1.5 miles south of Nebo.
May 2003HailNebo-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail south of Nebo.
May 2003HailNebo-Local law enforcement reported 1 inch hail between Nebo and Pearl.
April 2024HailNebo-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNebo-no account filed
March 2012HailNebo-no account filed
April 2011HailNebo-no account filed
January 2008HailNebo-no account filed
April 2002HailNebo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pleasant Hill4.3 miles15
Straut4.5 miles12
Martinsburg5.8 miles13
Independence6.1 miles13
Old Pearl7.6 miles12
Greenpond8.7 miles12
Bee Creek8.7 miles12
Pearl8.8 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on NeboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q673371The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 414330. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.